Pseudofinite fields with additive and multiplicative character
Abstract
We introduce the theory PF+,× of pseudofinite fields with generic additive and multiplicative character added as continuous logic predicates. Using the Weil bounds on character sums over finite fields as well as the Erdos-Tur\`an-Koksma inequality we show that it is the asymptotic theory (in characteristic 0) of finite fields with (sufficiently generic) additive and multiplicative character. Moreover, we establish quantifier elimination in a natural definitional expansion of the language and deduce that integration by the Chatzidakis-van den Dries-Macintyre counting measure is uniformly definable in the parameters. Finally, we show that PF+,× is a simple theory.
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